Word: curio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps, had there never been a King and I. a South Pacific-no. that won't help. Well, perhaps had there never be fore been any exotic musicals at all. 13 Daughters would have emerged a real curiosity instead of a curio, the libretto could have been forgiven its dullness, and what is lilting in the music would have blotted out what is banal. But on a Broad way that has offered exotic musicals and to spare, even what is reasonably good in 13 Daughters-such as a few of Rod Alexander's dances-still seems reminiscent...
...spent his life in the seaport of Ostend, where he was born in 1860. His father, raised in England and Belgium, and Belgian mother indulged him shamelessly. He lasted exactly two years in school, lived in a world of fairy tales, nightmares, the fascinating clutter of his parents' curio shop and an attic that was "full of horrible spiders, shells, old clothing the color of rust and blood, red and white corals, monkeys, turtles, dried mermaids and stuffed Chinamen...